Originally Posted by
NYCommuter
To respond to several posts that say what the extract above does:
I don't push past people. When the seatbelt light goes off, in the seconds before others get up, I can usually walk up 2 or 3 rows if I'm in coach. I stop immediately when others start pouring into the aisle.
With that info, is what I'm doing THAT bad?
When people stand there (like one guy did on Saturday), with several rows of completely empty space, for a few minutes, I and a few others were literally on top of each other behind him. He squeezed us just so he could allegedly be polite to people in front of him.
I think you're honestly asking for opinions.
Yes, it is rude to push your way up the aisle. You then prevent the people in the row you are standing next to from getting up just because they didn't hop up the microsecond the bell sounded.
It's much more polite to wait for those ahead to get off.